Exploring everything from thermo-dynamics to sold state physics, and relating the physics in comic books to such real-world applications as microwave ovens and drivers' air bags, this book shows how comic books have often been ahead of science in explaining cutting-edge physics.
Exploring everything from thermo-dynamics to sold state physics, and relating the physics in comic books to such real-world applications as microwave ovens and drivers' air bags, this book shows how comic books have often been ahead of science in explaining cutting-edge physics.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
The Physics of Super HeroesForeword Preface to the Second Edition Introduction: Secret Origins: How Science Saved Superhero Comic Books Section 1-Mechanics 1. Up, Up, and Away-Forces and Motion 2. Deconstructing Krypton-Newton's Law of Gravity 3. The Day Gwen Stacy Died-Impulse and Momentum 4. Flash Facts-Friction, Drag, and Sound 5. If This Be My Density-Properties of Matter 6. So He Talks to Fishes, Want to Make Something of It?-Fluid Mechanics 7. Can He Swing From a Thread?-Centripetal Acceleration 8. Can Ant-Man Punch His Way Out of a Paper Bag?-Torque and Rotation 9. The Human Top Goes Out for a Spin-Angular Momentum 10. Is Ant-Man Deaf, Dumb, and Blind?-Simple Harmonic Motion 11.Like a Flash of Lightning-Special Relativity Section 2-Energy-Heat and Light 12. The Central City Diet Plan-Conservation of Energy 13. The Case of the Missing Work-The Three Laws of Thermodynamics 14. Mutant Meteorology-Conduction and Convection 15. How the Monstrous Menace of the Mysterious Melter Makes Dinner Preparation a Breeze-Phase Transitions 16. Electro's Clinging Ways-Electrostatics 17. Superman Schools Spider-Man-Electrical Currents 18. How Electro Becomes Magneto When He Runs-Ampere's Law 19. How Magneto Becomes Electro When He Runs-Magnetism and Faraday's Law 20. Electro and Magneto Do the Wave-Electromagnetism and Light Section 3-Modern Physics 21. Journey Into the Microverse-Atomic Physics 22. Not a Dream! Not a Hoax! Not an Imaginary Tale!-Quantum Mechanics 23. Through a Wall Lightly-Tunneling Phenomena 24. Sock It to Shellhead-Solid-State Physics 25. The Costumes are Super, Too-Materials Science Section 4-What Have We Learned? 26. Me Am Bizarro!-Superhero Bloopers Afterword-Lo, There Shall Be an Ending! Recommended Reading Key Equations Notes Acknowledgments Index
The Physics of Super HeroesForeword Preface to the Second Edition Introduction: Secret Origins: How Science Saved Superhero Comic Books Section 1-Mechanics 1. Up, Up, and Away-Forces and Motion 2. Deconstructing Krypton-Newton's Law of Gravity 3. The Day Gwen Stacy Died-Impulse and Momentum 4. Flash Facts-Friction, Drag, and Sound 5. If This Be My Density-Properties of Matter 6. So He Talks to Fishes, Want to Make Something of It?-Fluid Mechanics 7. Can He Swing From a Thread?-Centripetal Acceleration 8. Can Ant-Man Punch His Way Out of a Paper Bag?-Torque and Rotation 9. The Human Top Goes Out for a Spin-Angular Momentum 10. Is Ant-Man Deaf, Dumb, and Blind?-Simple Harmonic Motion 11.Like a Flash of Lightning-Special Relativity Section 2-Energy-Heat and Light 12. The Central City Diet Plan-Conservation of Energy 13. The Case of the Missing Work-The Three Laws of Thermodynamics 14. Mutant Meteorology-Conduction and Convection 15. How the Monstrous Menace of the Mysterious Melter Makes Dinner Preparation a Breeze-Phase Transitions 16. Electro's Clinging Ways-Electrostatics 17. Superman Schools Spider-Man-Electrical Currents 18. How Electro Becomes Magneto When He Runs-Ampere's Law 19. How Magneto Becomes Electro When He Runs-Magnetism and Faraday's Law 20. Electro and Magneto Do the Wave-Electromagnetism and Light Section 3-Modern Physics 21. Journey Into the Microverse-Atomic Physics 22. Not a Dream! Not a Hoax! Not an Imaginary Tale!-Quantum Mechanics 23. Through a Wall Lightly-Tunneling Phenomena 24. Sock It to Shellhead-Solid-State Physics 25. The Costumes are Super, Too-Materials Science Section 4-What Have We Learned? 26. Me Am Bizarro!-Superhero Bloopers Afterword-Lo, There Shall Be an Ending! Recommended Reading Key Equations Notes Acknowledgments Index
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